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A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents - Volume 8, part 2: Grover Cleveland by Grover Cleveland
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and cause the same to be published for one month in at least one
newspaper (if any such there be) published at each United States port of
entry on the Pacific coast, warning all persons against entering said
waters for the purpose of violating the provisions of said section;
and he shall also cause one or more vessels of the United States to
diligently cruise said waters and arrest all persons and seize all
vessels found to be or to have been engaged in any violation of the
laws of the United States therein.

Articles I, II, and III of a convention between the United States of
America and Great Britain for the renewal of the existing _modus
vivendi_ in Bering Sea, concluded April 18, 1892, are published for
the same purpose:

ARTICLE I. Her Majesty's Government will prohibit during the pendency of
the arbitration seal killing in that part of Bering Sea lying eastward
of the line of demarcation described in Article No. I of the treaty of
1867 between the United States and Russia, and will promptly use its
best efforts to insure the observance of this prohibition by British
subjects and vessels.

ART. II. The United States Government will prohibit seal killing for the
same period in the same part of Bering Sea and on the shores and islands
thereof the property of the United States (in excess of 7,500 to be
taken on the islands for the subsistence of the natives), and will
promptly use its best efforts to insure the observance of this
prohibition by United States citizens and vessels.

ART. III. Every vessel or person offending against this prohibition in
the said waters of Bering Sea outside of the ordinary territorial limits
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